For the past year, after I replaced the stock front bumper with the M-Tech one, I avoided drilling unsightly holes for the front license plate by using 3M double-sided mounting tape. This worked, but was a bit inconvenient to take off and reapply given the number of events I would pull the plate off for. The tape would lose its adhesiveness when removed, and is a difficult to peel off the plate. Worse yet was the prospect of reapplying the plate with debris on the tape after it had sat in my trunk for a few days. The straw that broke the camel's back was when it had stuck so well that when I once attempted to remove it quickly, it pulled on the bumper material, and distorted/deformed it enough to put a crease in the bumper.

Fed up with this, I purchased and installed a Skene Design plate mount, which I was entirely happy with: